perception and perspective

On Sunday, khom and I have attended an event which was basically organized by my BIL and his team. Actually, I was being informed about this event on Saturday's noon which was quite last minute. They (the team) called me and offered me to do some voluntary work which is to educate anak-anak kampung for extra tuition. So in my mind, aku dah teringatkan cik khom coz both of us had already been done/used to voluntary works during university's life. Basically, we got no probs at all.

Maka, on the Sunday kitorang ke rumah di mana pelajar2 (anak2 kg) gathered. Agak ramailah - dalam 100 orang. Umur diorang dalam lingkungan darjah 1-6 and a few Form 1 students. Me and khom have decided to actually teach them english subject. We thought that we would be teaching them according to the same syllabus like the schools are doing. NO - we would not. We were being told that the students can't even read. And the most surprising fact is, even students of standard 6 could not read yet. So question: HOW ARE THEY GOING TO SIT FOR THEIR UPSR? At this point, we are not saying about reading english text specifically but rather reading in generally bigger scope.

Khom and I agak terkejut mendengar penyataan ini. Kami diberitahu yang pelajar-pelajar ni semua adalah majority anak-anak orang yang low-income. Their fathers work as fishermen, guards, etc. And for them to not having such exposure in studies is actually understood. So, our existence and appearance in the program/event is supposedly to bring them out of their 'kepompong'. It's quite a tough responsibility and challenging though! (",)

However, these are some of the experiences I had on that Sunday. It was actually the first time I met with the students and without preparation, I did some introductory session with them. The class was comprised of a mixture of feelings: kelakar, geram, kesian, gembira, menguji kesabaran etc. Therefore, let me shared with u guys some of the "touched" scenarios that had happened during the class session.

THE SCENARIO: I asked the students to give any vocabularies that they could find at school.



THE RESPONSE:



1) Schoolmate: I asked them the meaning of it in BM. They answered- kelas matematik.

2) Chalk: I asked one of them to spell it out. He spelled- C.H.O.P

3) Sheep: He wanted to say SHEEP but he said SHIT.

p/s: kat sekolah ada sheep ker? or even goat? hhmmm...(wondering...) *-*

EVALUATION: For the first time, it could be funny and cute. But the reality is, they really need help coz they are the future of our generation. It is sincerely hoped that there could be more non-profit activities as such to help in curbing the existing problems.